Lincoln Green (New Zealand) – Pitch Report

Lincoln Green cricket ground is in Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand. The ground is situated near the Bert Sutcliffe Oval and is part of the New Zealand Cricket Academy. In February 1997, during a match between New Zealand Women and New Zealand A Women, the first recorded game on the ground took place. Later that year, when the New Zealand Academy cricket team played Bangladesh at the facility, it was their first-class debut; they won by an innings and 115 runs against their opponents who had yet to gain Test status. The Academy staged Pakistan A in January of the following year. Two more first-class games were played there during the 1998/99 Shell Conference, when the Southern Conference battled the Central Conference and Northern Confraternity. The final first-class game held at Old Trafford came in 1999, when New Zealand A faced a South African touring team.